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2 Committee records
2A Sub-Committees records
3 Student records
4 Admissions records
5 Accommodation records
6 Records of course delivery, content and review
7 Conferences records
8 Examinations records
9 Essays
10 Staff records
11 External relations records
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Archives of the Course on Development and earlier and later development studies programmes

Title Records of course delivery, content and review
Reference CDEV 6
Covering Dates 1946–1982
Content and context

Covers teaching and lecturing, syllabus reform, field trips, research projects, library, and debates about the course's future.

CDEV 6/1, 19: numbers assigned by C.E. Welch, files not received in 1974.

Index Terms
Curriculum
Teaching
University/CDEV 6 contains:
2-3 Lecture timetables, with related correspondence.
2 files.
1946–1959
4 Correspondence and papers relating to Second Course lectures on Colonial Administration.
2 files in bundle.
1947–1962
5-6 Correspondence and papers relating to lectures on Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences.
2 files.
1946–1961
7-8 Correspondence and papers relating to lectures to Second Course students on British colonial policy and practice.
2 files.
1947–1959
9 Correspondence relating to the organisation and delivery of History lectures.
1 file.
1946–1955
10-13 Correspondence relating to the organisation and delivery of languages lectures.
4 files.
1949–1960
14 General correspondence relating to African languages lectures.
1 file.
1958–1966
15 Correspondence relating to tutors in African languages.
1 file.
1954–1963
16 Correspondence relating to Law lectures.
1 file.
1946–1959
17-18 Correspondence relating to lectures on Local Government.
2 files.
1946–1954
20-5 Lecture notes. 1950–1959
26 Draft lecture lists, with related correspondence.
4 files in bundle.
1969–1982
27 Correspondence with lecturers arranging the weekly capsule sessions.
4 files in bundle.
1972–1982
28-34 Correspondence, papers and course outlines for various capsule lecture courses.
7 files.
1972–1981
35 Review handout for course, Strategies of Rural Development, prepared by H. West; with related correspondence. Course ran 8-12 May 1972.
1 file.
1972
36 Course outlines for lectures and seminars; with related correspondence.
1 file.
1970–1978
37 Correspondence relating to arranging lectures for the MPhil seminar in Development Studies.
1 file.
1978–1980
38 Correspondence relating to the lecture programme on the politics of the Middle East proposed by A.D. Lehmann.
1 file.
1977–1978
39 Correspondence relating to visiting extra-mural lecturers.
1 file.
1969–1977
40 Programmes, agendas, discussion exercises and notes for Course B students.
1 file.
1958–1961
41 Correspondence relating to English language teaching.
1 file.
1969–1981
42-8 Papers relating to teaching the core curriculum.
9 files.
1952–1981
49-57 Papers relating to teaching of Special Options.
9 files.
1969–1979
58-62 Correspondence and circulated notices relating to supervisions in different subjects.
5 files.
1968–1978
63 Statements of supervision groups and teaching.
1 file.
1978–1979
64 Correspondence relating to visits to other countries by staff and students.
1 file.
1947–1957
65 Correspondence arranging visits by Course B students.
1 file.
1958–1959
66 Correspondence relating to Second Course 'Liaison' Training. This was the name given to exercises for team building.
1 file.
1947–1957
67 Correspondence relating to student attachments.
3 files in bundle.
1971–1977
68 Papers relating to student field trips.
4 files.
1968–1981
69 Correspondence relating to ESU scheme for overseas visits and to P.P. Howell's visits.
3 files in bundle.
1969–1981
70 Reading lists and related correspondence.
1 file.
1970–1977
71 Directors of Studies' student reports and related correspondence.
1 file.
1975–1980
72 Correspondence relating to the interim and terminal reports on study fellows financed by the Overseas Development Agency.
1 file.
1968–1982
73 Assorted papers relating to annual revisions of the course prospectus, with copies of prospectus as published.
8 files in bundle.
1957–1980
74 Correspondence and papers on the future of the course.
2 files in bundle.
1948–1956
75 Government memoranda on the future of the course.
1 bundle.
1953
76 Papers on the future of the course. Comprise discussions with the Department of Agriculture and the General Board on 'research institutes' proposed by the Bridges Report.
1 file.
1961–1968
77 Correspondence and papers relating to the syllabus of the Second Course.
1 file.
1947–1948
78 Papers relating to the content of Course A.
1 file.
1956–1962
79 Papers relating to review and revision of the courses. Comprise minutes, memoranda and correspondence.
14 files.
1967–1976
80 Papers relating to the syllabus and evaluation arrangements for a pre-course Economics programme.
1 file.
1973–1975
81 Papers relating to a course on Land Administration offered by the Course on Development in conjunction with the Department of Land Economy.
1 file.
1967–1968
82 Correspondence and memoranda relating to the introduction of a Diploma in Development Studies.
1 file.
1967–1968
83 Reports and correspondence relating to the syllabus and requirements of the MPhil in Development Studies.
4 files.
1971–1981
84 Draft papers on the future of the various Development Studies courses.
1 file.
1981
85 Reports on Technical Assistance study fellows, with their appraisals of the course.
1 file.
1968–1978
86 Correspondence relating to adding an option to the syllabus on National Accounting.
1 file.
1977–1978
87 Papers relating to E.V.K. Fitzgerald's research project on the financing of public investment in Mexico.
1 file.
1977–1978
88 Papers relating to T.J. Downing's research project on water resources in El Salvador.
2 files.
1975–1978
89 Papers relating to Dr T. Spens' research project on the role of women in developing countries.
1 file.
1975
90 Papers relating to the research project of Dr C. MacCormack on sociological aspects of development studies.
1 file.
1978–1979
91 Correspondence relating to course publications.
1 file.
1973–1979
92 Correspondence relating to the Journal of Development Studies, edited from Wolfson College.
1 file.
1978
93 Assorted administrative correspondence.
3 files in bundle.
1946–1959
94 Handing-over notes written by lecturers in Tropical Agriculture.
1 file.
1952–1959
95 Handing-over notes written by the Supervisor.
2 items in envelope.
1962
96 Annual reports written by lecturers in Tropical Agriculture.
1 file.
1956–1961
97 Papers relating to administrative arrangements for the Second Course. Cover: income tax, leave, allowances, supervisor's reports.
1 file.
1947–1949
98 Papers relating to organisation of the course for foreign service trainees.
1 file.
1960–1966
99 Director's personal correspondence.
2 files in bundle.
1969–1982
100 Assorted papers relating to the administration of the MPhil in Development Studies.
5 files.
1976–1981
101 Director's papers on the demise of the course.
10 files in box.
1979–1982
102 Papers relating to the holdings and personnel of the library.
2 files in bundle.
1969–1982
103 Correspondence relating to films acquired by the library.
1 file.
1955–1966
104 Papers relating to the lectures in Tropical Agriculture covering curriculum, arrangements for student placements and staffing.
1 file.
1951–1964
105 Xerox of an typescript article 'Courses on Development at the University of Cambridge', including a history. This may be part of a larger advice booklet for students setting out courses of study at the University. It is annotated 'History: soon to be old hat??'.
1 item in envelope.
1979
106 Dispatch register for published conference papers, 1961-8.
1 volume.
1966–1969

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